Books You can check out Amazon for availability here . The Dream of Reason: American Consciousness and Cultural Achievement from Independence to the Civil War. London: Edward Arnold; New York: St Martin’s Press, 1977. xi, 397 pp.; 67 pls, bibliography, index. Out of Dissent: A Study of Five Contemporary British Poets. London: Talus Editions, 1997. 584 pp.; bibliography, index. Holding the Line: Selected Essays in American Literature and Culture. Bern: Peter Lang, 2009. 350 pp.; bibliography, index. The Century’s Midnight: Dissenting European and American Writers in the era of the Second World War Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010. 607 pp.; bibliography, index POETRY PUBLICATIONS Clearing the Distance: Poems 1974-1978. Leamington: Arts Co-operative, 1978 The Range Taken: Poems 1979-1982. Leamington: Atlantic Cedar Press, 1985 Shifts in Undreamt Time: Pictures after Poussin Lingerings of the Large Day: